EP1855754B1 - A device for fixating a tube relative to a skin surface and assembly - Google Patents

A device for fixating a tube relative to a skin surface and assembly Download PDF

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EP1855754B1
EP1855754B1 EP06709700A EP06709700A EP1855754B1 EP 1855754 B1 EP1855754 B1 EP 1855754B1 EP 06709700 A EP06709700 A EP 06709700A EP 06709700 A EP06709700 A EP 06709700A EP 1855754 B1 EP1855754 B1 EP 1855754B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
    • A61M25/01—Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
    • A61M25/02—Holding devices, e.g. on the body
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
    • A61M25/01—Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
    • A61M25/02—Holding devices, e.g. on the body
    • A61M2025/0246—Holding devices, e.g. on the body fixed on the skin having a cover for covering the holding means
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
    • A61M25/01—Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
    • A61M25/02—Holding devices, e.g. on the body
    • A61M2025/0253—Holding devices, e.g. on the body where the catheter is attached by straps, bands or the like secured by adhesives
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
    • A61M25/01—Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
    • A61M25/02—Holding devices, e.g. on the body
    • A61M2025/0293—Catheter, guide wire or the like with means for holding, centering, anchoring or frictionally engaging the device within an artificial lumen, e.g. tube

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  • the present invention generally relates to the technique of applying and fixating a tube, such as a drainage tube, relative to a skin surface part of a patient or person, and more precisely a device for fixating such tube relative to a skin surface part of a patient or person, and an assembly comprising the device and the tube.
  • a tube such as a drainage tube
  • a tube It is a well-known technique to enter a tube through the skin of a patient or person in order to drain liquid from a cavity within the patient or person, e.g. after a surgical operation.
  • the tube is also used for creating a vacuum within the cavity which is drained by means of the tube.
  • An example of such an application is the treatment of a collapsed lung, in which application the cavity of the thorax of the patient in question is evacuated through a pleural tube in order to cause an adhesion of the pulmonary pleura of the patient to the costal pleura of the patient.
  • tubes such as drainage tubes, there exists a risk that the tube is blocked as the tube is bent, or kinks of the tube are produced.
  • the tube is to be vented for creating a vacuum within the cavity which is vented through the tube, a further problem exists in creating a reliable and lasting sealing of the entrance of the tube through the skin of the patient, and further an overall desire of rendering it possible to create a sealing and a fixation of the tube in a swift and reliable manner.
  • the tube such as a pleural tube which is used for venting the cavity of the thorax of the patient, the lung of whom has collapsed, has been fixated and sealed in a manual operation in which the medical doctor who applies the pleural tube arranges one or more vaseline-impregnated wads round the pleural tube at the entrance of the pleural tube through the skin of the patient and compresses the vaseline-impregnated wads in order to create a sealing at the entrance.
  • the vaseline-impregnated wads and the pleural tube as well are fixated by means of plaster.
  • a tube in particular a venting drainage tube, such as a pleural tube
  • a venting drainage tube such as a pleural tube
  • a proximal part of the tube extending from the body of the patient through a through-going passage in the device is bent to form a loop whereby a distal part of the tube is fixated to the skin surface of the patient by means of eg. a separate piece of plaster.
  • This procedure gives rise to a potential risk of the tube becoming blocked if the tube is inadvertently doubled or bent
  • a device for fixating a tube is known, which device to a great extent eliminates the drawbacks of the earlier known devices.
  • the device known from these two published international patent applications on the basis of which numerous patents have issued, now assigned to the applicant company, may, however, from a technical view as to the ability to fixate and maintain the tube in a preset position be refined, further taking into consideration the necessity of allowing the device fixating and maintaining the tube to be exposed to mechanical pressure or forces, as the patient or person wearing the tube fixated by means of the device may e.g. shift his or her position lying in a bed and in doing so, lie on the device which should then be capable of accumulating the pressure or force generated by the person or patient shifting a lying position and at the same time, maintain the tube safely and securely in its intentional position.
  • the devices known from the above WO publications, WO 95/33508 and WO 97/21459 may further be refined, in particular in view of the necessity of sterilizing the device, as the commonly used foamed materials or PU based materials may not stand exposure to sterilizing gasses conventionally used within the surgical dressings industry, such as gasses, e.g. T-gas, also know as ethylene oxide gas, formaldehyde, propylene oxide and other chemical sterilizing gasses.
  • gasses e.g. T-gas
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a device for fixating a tube, which device may be configurated so as to have specific properties dedicated to a specific area and different properties, as to compressibility and flexibility dedicated to a different area of the device.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide a device for fixating a tube, which device allows the entire device after manufacture to be sterilized by means of a sterilizing gas, such as T-gas or ethylene oxide gas without deteriorating or in the alternative ruining the device or the performance of the device, as the device is used for its intentional purpose of fixating and maintaining a tube in a specific and fixed position relative to the skin surface of a patient or person.
  • a sterilizing gas such as T-gas or ethylene oxide gas
  • a still further object of the present invention is to provide a device for fixating a tube, which device to any substantial extent eliminates the risk that the tube is blocked at the entrance of the skin of the patient in question by to any substantial extent eliminating the risk of creation of kinks of the tube.
  • a still further further object of the present invention is to provide a device for fixating a tube which device constitutes a self-adhering devices for adhering to the skin of the patient in question still providing a structure allowing the device to be handled and positioned properly relative to the tube and also the skin of the patient in question without any substantial risk of adhering the device unintentionally to the tube or the skin of the patient in question.
  • An advantage of the device according to the present invention relates to the supporting component of the device according to the invention, which component is a unitary structure exhibiting specific mechanical properties as to compressibility and flexibility dedicated to a specific supporting area and different properties dedicated to a different supporting area of the device.
  • a further advantage of the device according to the present invention lies in that the device is a self-adhering device which is applied to the tube and to the skin of the patient in question without any additional fixation means such as supplementary plasters, clamps etc., and is easily positioned in the intentional position and orientation relative to the tube and the skin of the patient In question before fixating the device relative to the skin of the patient in question.
  • a feature of the device according to the present invention lies in that the device according to the present invention constitutes a disposable unitary structure which has been presterilized by means of a sterilizing gas, such as T-gas or ethylene oxide gas, and is applied as a plaster structure to the skin of the patient.
  • a sterilizing gas such as T-gas or ethylene oxide gas
  • the support component of the device according to the present invention fulfils the main purposes of turning the length of the tube which length extends outwardly from the aperture of the plaster component and outwardly from the skin surface part of the person or patient to which skin surface part the device is fixated by means of the plaster component from an orientation substantially perpendicular to the skin surface part of the patient or person to an orientation substantially parallel with and in contact with the skin surface part of the patient or person and also of preventing the tube from being blocked by the turning from the above perpendicular orientation to the above parallel orientation or through the generation of kinks or bends on the tube.
  • a basic realization of the present invention relates to the fact that the support component is made from a thin shell of a plastics material which, due to its compressibility and flexibility, allows the support component to be deformed or compressed at specific areas, whereas different areas, such as a part of the outer surface part supporting the tube may not be compressed or deformed, as the above-mentioned different areas are reinforced by one or more reinforcing elements.
  • the reinforcing element characteristic of the device according to the present invention may be implemented in accordance with different techniques, as the reinforcing element may be constituted by an integral component of the shell constituting the support component, or alternatively, be a separate component to be positioned within the support component or a reinforcing element positioned within the shell or received within the plastics materials of the shell, such as a reinforcing wire, thread or mesh.
  • the reinforcing element is an integral reinforcing rib positioned within the shell and extending along and possibly parallel with at least a part of the surface part or alternatively, the reinforcing element may be constituted by an integral reinforcing rib positioned within the shell and below at least a part of the outer surface part.
  • the device is adapted to the ability of standing exposure to a sterilizing gas, such as T-gas or ethylene oxide gas, commonly used within the wound dressing industry and the shell constituting the support component of the device according to the present invention is preferably made from a plastics material capable of standing exposure to the sterilizing gas, such as T-gas.
  • a sterilizing gas such as T-gas or ethylene oxide gas
  • the material used for the support component may be constituted by any appropriate plastics material fulfilling the basic requirements as to exhibiting flexibility and elasticity for allowing the shell to be collapsed or deformed and, possibly and advantageously, also the capability of the material to be able to stand exposure to a sterilizing gas.
  • An example of such material is a copolymer of ethylene butyl acrylate, e.g. the copolymer supplied from the company DuPontTM under the name Elvaloy® 3427AC.
  • the shell may have a thickness of approximately 0.5 - 1.5 mm, such as 0.6 - 1.0 mm, e.g. approximately 0.6 - 0.8 mm, or a thickness of 0.6 - 0.7 mm, 0.7 - 0.8 mm, 0.8 - 0.9 mm, 0.9 -1.0mm, 1.0-1.1 mm, 1.1 - 1.2 mm, 1.2-1.3mm, 1.3-1.4mm or 1.4-1.5mm.
  • 0.6 - 1.0 mm e.g. approximately 0.6 - 0.8 mm, or a thickness of 0.6 - 0.7 mm, 0.7 - 0.8 mm, 0.8 - 0.9 mm, 0.9 -1.0mm, 1.0-1.1 mm, 1.1 - 1.2 mm, 1.2-1.3mm, 1.3-1.4mm or 1.4-1.5mm.
  • the support component may constitute a dome shaped structure, which may be fixated to the plaster component through a connecting component such as a thin adhesive foil.
  • the support component is provided with an integral flange extending outwardly from the central dome shaped part of the support component and constituting a connecting component for connecting the central dome shaped part of the support component to the plaster component.
  • an aperture is provided in the connecting component or the integral flange, which aperture is positioned or located in registration with the aperture of the plaster component.
  • a through-going hole is preferably provided in the shell constituting the support component, which hole allows gas, such as atmospheric air to escape when the shell is compressed, thereby preventing the air from being trapped within the inner space defined within the shell and in doing so, establishing a deformable balloon.
  • the inner reinforcing element or reinforcing rib of the shell constituting the supporting component characteristic of the present invention may extend along the entire length of the shell or the outer surface part thereby preventing the support component from being compressed or deformed at the area around the reinforcing element or reinforcing rib.
  • a part of the outer surface part namely the part adjacent to or closest to the aperture of the plaster component is unsupported by the reinforcing element or the inner supporting rib for allowing the part of the shell constituting the support component adjacent to the aperture of the plaster component to be slightly compressed or deformed and in doing so, allow the device to accommodate to e.g. the pressure generated, as a patient or person lies on the device.
  • one or more distance elements may be provided at the area in question, which distance elements are positioned within the shell and have a reduced height as compared to the free height within the shell at the area in question, thereby delimiting the possible height of compression of the shell at the area in question.
  • These distance elements may, like the reinforcing element characteristic of the present invention be constituted by separate or loose distance elements or be integrally produced with the shell.
  • a reinforcing element or reinforcing rib within the shell may involve the provision of a single reinforcing rib or alternatively and advantageously, the provision of two or more reinforcing elements or reinforcing ribs, since the provisions of two or more reinforcing elements or reinforcing ribs allows more than a single area to be reinforced for obtaining a specific strength of the area or areas in question.
  • the outer surface part in which the tube is supported may have any appropriate configuration such as a curved configuration as viewed in the longitudinal direction of the tube, however, by the provision of the reinforcing rib positioned below the outer surface part supporting the tube, the outer surface may have a simple rectilinear configuration along the longitudinal direction of the tube rather than being bent or configurated into a zig zag.
  • the outer surface part of the support component may be configurated so as to provide lateral support of the tube, or alternatively, the device may be provided with securing means for securing the length of the tube relative to the support component.
  • the securing means may be configurated as an integral part of the support component such as an adhesive coating or alternatively be provided by an integral flap of the plaster component, which flap is to be adhered to the top surface of the support component and optionally to the exposed outer surface of the length of the tube.
  • a separate adhesive strip may be used for fixating the tube relative to the skin surface of the patient, relative to the plaster component and/or relative to the support component.
  • the adhesive strip or the part of the plaster component in question may advantageously be provided with a transparent area at least in the area of the aperture of the plaster component for allowing visible inspection of the fixation of the length of the tube.
  • the drainage tube may be any tubular elements such as a rubber or plastics material tube or a so-called 'pig-tall' type drainage tube.
  • the first embodiment of the device for fixating a tube serves the overall purpose of ensuring that the tube does not become blocked due to the tube inadvertently being doubled or bent upon itself, thereby providing a tube fixating device which render it extremely simple and far less complicated than bitherto to fixate the tube to a patient, further having specific compressible areas and different non-compressible areas, and further serves the of allowing the device to be easily stérilized by exposure to a sterilizing gas such as T-gas or ethylene oxide gas conventionally used in the surgical dressings industry.
  • a sterilizing gas such as T-gas or ethylene oxide gas conventionally used in the surgical dressings industry.
  • the device according to the first embodiment of the invention designated the reference numeral 10 in its entirety generally comprises plaster component 12 having a central aperture 14 and carrying an adhesive layer on the lower side thereof by means of which the plaster component 12 adheres to the skin surface of the patient to whom the device 10 is applied.
  • the device 10 further comprises a cover sheet 16 covering said adhesive layer, and an integrally cast support component 30 to be described in greater details below with reference to Figs. 4 - 6 and having a central done and an outwardly protruding flange or connecting part 38.
  • the flange or connecting part 38 has an aperture 20 and the donne has a groove 32 for receiving a tube of the support component 30 protrudes from the upper surface of the plaster component 12 through a central aperture 14 of the plaster component.
  • the dome of the support component 30 is generally termed with a rounded or curved upper surface composed, of two sections, a first section 34 constituting a front surface section positioned adjacent to the aperture 20 and a second section 36 positioned or located behind the first section 34.
  • the groove 32 extends continuously from the first. section 34 to and through the second section 36 and provides by the overall configuration of the first and second sections 34 and 36, respectively, of the support component 30, a support surface for the tube as the groove part of the first section 34 supports the tube ss the tube is turned from an orientation substantially perpendicular to the skin surface the patient to an orientation substantially parallel with the skin surface, whereas the groove part of the second section 36 provides a continuous support of the tube, as the tube is lowered into contact with the skin surface of the patient.
  • the plaster component 12 has, as is illustrated in Fig. 1 , a flap 22 provided as a cutaway part of the plaster component providing the aperture 14 and is at ist lower surface provided with a further cover sheet 24 covering the adhesive of the plaster component flap 22,
  • a tube 26 which is a so-called pig-tail type drainage tube is inserted through the aperture 20 of the support component 30, i.e. a tube which is provided with a distal end which is formed into the configuration of a pig-tail and which to a high degree resists the autonomous expelling of foreign bodies from the human body as compared to a straight line drainage tube.
  • the two-parts of the device 10 delimited by the slit 23 extending from the aperture 20 to the periphery of the device may be forced apart thus allowing the tube to be entered into the aperture 20,
  • the device 10 is initially threaded on the tube or alternatively shapped round the tube 26 utilizing the slit 28, whereupon the entire device 10 is property positioned relative to the skin surface part, and the cover sheet 16 is then removed for exposing the adhesive layer to be adhered to said skin surface part as the adhesive layer is brought into facial contact with the outer skin surface the patient.
  • Fig. 3 shows the device 1C according to the invention, after the plaster component has been fixated to the body of the patient in this next step, the tube 26 is turned to a position in which it extending substantially parallel to the skin surface of the patient and in contact with the skin surface, in this the tube 24 is supported by the support component 30, The tube 26 is taken up by the groove 32 and the cover sheet 24 of a flap 22 is removed. The flap 22 is then moved to the position shown on Fig. 3 in which the lower side of the flap 22 is in contact with the upper surface of the support component 30 and the tuba 26, causing the tube 26 to be secured and maintained in place.
  • Figs. 3 shows the device 1C according to the invention
  • the integrally cast support component 30 is shown in greater details, which component is made from a thin shell of deformable plastics material capable of standing exposure to ethylene oxide for an extended period of time, thereby allowing that the entire device may be sterilized after the device has been assemble.
  • the front section 34 of the support component 30 of the Integrally cast structure is provided with a venting aperture 35 allowing the support component 30 to be slightly compressed allowing any gas, such as atmospheric air contained within the support component 30 to escape through the venting aperture 35.
  • a reinforcing rib is provided at the bottom surface of the groove 32, which rib is shown in Fig. 5 and designated the reference numeral 33.
  • the rib 33 extends to a position close to the front section 34. for reinforcing and supporting the groove 32 in its entirety, as shown in Fig. 5 , serving to support the entire groove 32 for preventing that the groove of the support component 30 be collapsed by e.g. a patient intentionally or unintentionally applying a pressure to the device 10 according to the present invention.
  • additional reinforcing ribs may be provided, as is illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7 , in which the support component 30 is shown from the bottom surface prior to applying the integrally cast structure assembly to the plaster component 12 and disclosing the one reinforcing rib 33 positioned below the groove 32 and further disclosing an additional reinforcing rib 37 extending parallely with the reinforcing rib 33 It is to be understood that the reinforcing rib 37 may have a configuration different from the configuration of the rib 33.
  • Fig. 7 a vertical sectional view of the integrally cast structure of the support component 30 is shown.
  • a second embodiment of the support component 30 is shown, which differs from the above-described first embodiment shown In Figs. 8-4-7 in that the reinforcing rib 33 is shifted from a position below the groove 32, to a position adjacent to and parallel with the groove. Furthermore, the ribs 33' and 37' shown in Figs. 8-10 have a reduced length as compared to the ribs 33 and 37 shown in Figs. 5-7 . In the embodiment shown in Figs.
  • a set of distance elements or bumps 41 is provided, which distance elements serve to limit the maximum height of compression of the area in which the distance elements are provided and consequently, serve to prevent a complete compression or depression of the area in which the distance elements or bumps are provided.
  • a third and presently preferred embodiment of the support component 30 is shown, which third embodiment is a combination of the above-described first and second embodiments in that, in the third and presently preferred embodiment, the rib 33' is shifted as compared to the embodiment shown in Fig. 9 from a position adjacent to the groove 32 to a position below the groove 32 similar to the position of the groove 32 of the first embodiment shown in Fig. 6 .
  • a total of four distance elements or bumps 41 is provided,
  • the support component 30 was integrally cast from a copolymer of ethylene and butyl acrylate of the type Elvaloy® 3427AC suppled from DuPont TM providing an integral shell structure, Its dimensions were 60 ⁇ 50 mm and the integrally cast shell structure had a thickness of 0.6 mm.
  • the central dome of the support component 30 measured 25 ⁇ 31,5 mm and the maximum height of the dome was 5.9 mm.
  • the inner diameter of the aperture 20 was 4 mm.
  • the slit 28 had a length of 5 mm.
  • the plaster component 12 was formed from non-woven polyamide, and the central opening or aperture 14 measured 30 ⁇ 50 mm.
  • the cover sheets 16 and 24 were constituted by siliconized paper.
  • the assembly and also the two-part component characteristic of the device according to the present invention may be modified in numerous ways.
  • the two-part component described above in three embodiments with reference to Figs. 4-13 may be modified, e.g. by combining the elements of one of the embodiments into a different embodiment and further by shifting the reinforcing ribs from e.g. the orthogonal orientation relative to the groove 32.
  • the reinforcing ribs and the bumps may be proved by a separate element or separate elements to be combined with the shell constituting the two-part component or be incorporated into the material of the shell by e.g.

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